“Frans Moby” by Mathias BOSTRöm

June 10, 2025

Mathias Boström’s Roman Dive in the directionless and escaped

“Frans Moby” by Mathias BOSTRöm

There is one Framework, where personal researcher Magnus Sjöholm is contacted by the author and philosopher Kate LarsonA real person who died in 2018 because Kate made a choice in HammarbySlussen. Magnus is fascinated by Kate, nestles in her life and gives up to find the choices. About the same can be summarized Mathias Boströms ‘French Moby“ A huge part of just under 600 pages, the publisher of which believes, consists of seven short novels. The title is of course a reference to the major election novel par excellence, Herman Melville “Moby Dick”, who also plays a recurring role in the book of Boström.

Then there is an inner story, a kind of scrub, in which the outside is sabotaged, improved, destroyed and reduced. The frames are disturbed there. Magnus finds the script for his own life when he breaks into an apartment. He drinks beer with dead writers, thinks that himself ana channels on time, which tear up the interface created by our senses, which we call reality.

Here also a pulse replacement persecution theme develops that belongs to one of the strongest of the book

HammarbySlussen, where the elections first make the entrance, also forms an interface. Here sweet and salt water, different ecosystems and life forms come together. It is a place where worlds are mixed together, which is also the theme for the novel of Boström. Here, elements of fantastic, people and animals that are crucifixes, meetings with people from the history of literature, and some kind of glasses that can register the environment in an elevated version of the screen community, with life benefits of a fairly a few medium -sized man in the city center of Stockholm are combined.

If you do that As the publisher wants, and reads “Frans Moby” as seven separate short novels, the Pure Flanellen novels are the best. Magnus Lange walks through Stockholm in the changes in the seasons, over bridges, down in alleys, above and underground, get a nicely coordinated presence. Through a bank at Gullmarplans Metro Station, BOSTSTRöm becomes the breathtaking experience accurately embodied, it can be to consider the masses of people and realize that they are here, in life, at the same time. Here also a heart -defending persecution theme develops that is one of the strongest of the book, where the anonymity of the masses, and the noise of the city is produced with a fingertip that is as good as one of the predecessors that parasites Boström. Because communication between worlds is also a communication with literature in literature, and books are made of other books that another by Herman Melville’s successors should have said at some point.

“Moby Dick” is about human struggle with nature, the outside world, Magnus Hunting is rather reversed, haunting an interior that escapes him. No matter how much he is wandering, in the streets of Stockholm, on the mirror of the Mälaren water under a starry sky, or uninvited in the houses of other people, he never reaches a core, a fixed point that exists. It doesn’t matter how many good porn videos he plays in the girlfriend in front of the fireplace (the glasses again), the next day they are the darkest shadows on the screen and the meeting he wanted has gone for nothing.

Is the directionless The great merit of the novel, yes, the basis where it is rest is also the shortage. Because it gets pretty messy. And from time to time I wonder what the case is. Sometimes I don’t care, because I am either too irritated on a little repetitive and plastic artificial prose to understand, or I am just too busy to enjoy Magnus walks through Stockholm, looking for a choice, a sentence or just a big strong.